Well, the racially enhanced poster seemed to have left the house, to which I am glad, BUT, I prepared a response for him and I hate to see it go to waste, so here it is for prosparities sake, and for defending against some of his ill will toward me.
Jhodgeiii – As to you quoting me saying,
Why don’t you rather assume that the graphic representations were chose to be consistent with the teachings and style of the producers instead of contrary to them?
and then you saying.
Actually, I did give the scene the benefit of the doubt, knowing Bob's nature. It's upsetting, however, that a tape so well done had to be marred with an ambiguous ending scene reminding us blacks of an unjust, painful history. Perhaps if blacks were the majority and years ago whites were unrighteously hung from trees among smiling blacks you would understand.
You are amazing. So, if a teaching tape was against say racism and the holocaust, and at the end of the tape it showed a clip of a concentration camp scene, that would somehow be wrong or in poor taste? Even then, no, it would not be wrong or in poor taste, it would just be more on topic material. Unless of course Bob would communicate somehow that he promoted the holocaust, which is nearly as absurd as your paranoia.
As to
I'll make it clear that Bob is NOT a racist. Bob is a role model for me, and I'd never want to slander his ministry. I credit him for my Christian fervency. However, being black and having mostly black friends, I KNOW that this scene will cause blacks to stumble. I really, really wish that the producers had used a different scene.
I wondered if you were hyper sensitive on the race issue. As far as racial colors are concerned, I am white, but I know that unjust prejudice and murder are wrong and I abhor them just as much as any black or brown or yellow (etc.) person. But my point is - for you to say that (generally) black people will be as prejudicially biased and lacking objectivity towards this issue as you are, is rather telling. I really really wish you would get over your paranoia and victim mentality and wishful imaginations of some unspoken nonexistent super sick message.
As to
I pray that your diatribe edifies someone else because I have been a Bible-believing Christian since age 13, thank you. You know, one thing about Bob is that he seems to have a gift for revealing unbelievers. I can clearly see that you lack this gift 1WAY.
As if the entire paragraph did not fully demonstrate who I was talking about in terms of specific individuals, or generally the world. I did not intend any suggestion that you personally were not saved. However, you did this “glad to imagine a non-existent offense” thing to Bob, so why should I (another whitey) be surprised that “you” would do it to me too?
You want to see things wrongly because of your own vile spite, be your guest,
that seems to be your “gift”.
As to
For myself, race really isn't the issue, but the rightfulness of the execution IS. If you could even give me just the book it came from I would dig up the details myself.
What a load of crap. You said that you would never want to slander Bob’s ministry, but you see a clip that you are not sure clearly represents a righteous legal execution, or an illegal lynching, and so without ANY logical or reasonable cause, you assume that the clip is wrong so much so that you don’t even recommend the video. You are obviously judging that this “questionable” clip may represent a terrible injustice, so you are slandering Bob in the largest of ways, and you are cutting down your own intelligence at the same time, and apparently all people of color, because, unless you know the following two things for certain, (that’s two with a “T”)
it was an unjust lynching,
and
you know that Bob was promoting such a terrible thing,
then you (or ANYONE, even people of COLOR) have no reason to believe your false concern that it is supporting an unjust execution, which is obviously “murder”, and also smacks of some of the worlds worst sorts of racism and wickedness.
Two things, you know that
it was an unjust lynching AND the video promoted it anyway.
We all know that these two things are not true, and so we also know your complaint is also false.
